There's definitely automated degradation at smaller scale ("if $random_feature's backend times out, don't show it", etc.). The manual part of Defcon is more "h

There's definitely automated degradation at smaller scale ("if $random_feature's backend times out, don't show it", etc.). The manual part of Defcon is more "holy crap, we lost a datacenter and the whole site is melting, turn stuff off to bring the load down ASAP"